Fall Of Cherbourg 1944

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Item title reads - Fall of Cherbourg. France.

Various shots of American troops putting local labour to work repairing a marshalling yard which received heavy bombing by the allied air forces during the occupation, various shots of the wreckage. Various shots of U.S. troops in the bombed ruins...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44722
Sort Number:
44/053
Time in/Out:
01:08:27:00 / 01:17:16:00
Canister:
44/53
Film ID:
1362.05
Issue Date:
03/07/1944

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